Right-Wing Exposed

“What would Jesus do”, WWJD, has been a popular slogan among Evangelicals over the past several years.  It has also been a profitable slogan, as many types of merchandise stamped with this logo are sold at high retail prices by and to Evangelicals.  Was it just another money-making scheme in the Church?

I do not believe that Evangelicals in America reflect what Jesus did when He walked this planet nearly 2000 years ago, or what He would do if He was here today.  What would Jesus “really” do if He came to His American Evangelical Church today?

I believe He would begin His ministry the same way He did as recorded in the New Testament.  He would cleanse His “church temple” of all the greedy, corrupt, profiteering business practices.  He would likewise cast out the sellers from His Church; the bookstores, restaurants, arcade rooms, music stores, coffee shops etc, again saying that His House is to be a house of prayer, not a “house of merchandise”.

He would empty out the massive checking and savings accounts of America’s mega churches and sell their stocks and bonds, and would help the poor and feed the five million children who will die from starvation this year while Evangelical mega churches bask in their wealth; reminding them as He did in the New Testament that He was hungry, in the person of these starving children, but they did not feed Him.  He would also sell their elaborate and luxurious mega church buildings, and would build homeless shelters for the 800,000 Americans who sleep in alleys and under bridges,  reminding Evangelicals that He was a stranger, in the person of America’s homeless, but they did not give Him shelter.

He would denounce the hypocrisy and greed of television evangelists who devour the possessions of widows and the elderly, as the religious hypocrites did in Jesus’ day, so that they can pay themselves six and seven figure salaries and fly around in personal jets.  He would shun these charlatans and would associate with the poor and outcasts of society as recorded in the New Testament.

He would visit AIDS wards and children’s cancer wards healing everyone.  And, He would do it humbly as He had done before; not like Benny Hinn renting large auditoriums where he can take up huge offerings and advertise his name in lights to exalt himself.  Moreover, He would tell Evangelicals to get out of politics and get back to ministry.  He would advise them to focus on changing people’s hearts, instead of changing federal judges and congressional legislation.

This is the kind of Jesus we read about in the Bible, and He is being misrepresented by America’s Evangelicals.  This is truly what Jesus would really do.

Tags: Benny Hinn, Evangelicals, hypocrisy

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